Steel and Ink

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Mattern
Keyword(s):  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Architectural Treatises ◽  
The Way ◽  
Pattern Books

“Steel and Ink: The Printed City,” traces how, for over half a millennium, the printed page has informed the way we’ve imagined, designed, constructed, inhabited, administered, and navigated our cities. My exploration ranges from architectural treatises, maps, and pattern books to newspapers, contemporary niche periodicals, and new urban spaces for public reading.

Urban Surveillance in Mexico

2011 ◽  
pp. 324-340
Author(s):  
Nelson Botello
Keyword(s):  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Closed Circuit ◽  
Central Mexico ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Closed Circuit Television ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

In this chapter, the symbolic cultural dimension of technology and surveillance technologies in two cities and two commercial centers in central Mexico will be explored, especially the various Closed Circuit Television Systems (CCTV). This will allow the analysis of the way in which these technologies have made viable specific ways of sorting and governance of public and private spaces in the country. This document then examines the relationship established between the symbolic meanings given to these surveillance technologies in said urban spaces. Included is a series of observations and interviews of those in charge of these systems.

scholarly journals Du retrait à la reconquête : pratiquer la ville après un épisode psychotique

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Zoé Codeluppi
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Recovery Period ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Large Array ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Abstract. The article aims to provide a better understanding of the urban practices of young people living with a diagnosis of psychosis while recovering. I show the way practices are adjusted according to the temporal dynamics of psychosis. I argue that the continuous variability of symptoms over the recovery period implies alternately practices of withdrawal and reconquest of the urban space. I first outline participants' reconquest of urban spaces, which starts in well-known places and then extends to less familiar ones. In doing so, I point out the diversity of urban spaces inhabited by participants during the recovery process which includes institutional, private, as well as public places. I then outline the various material, relational and sensory resources available in these spaces. I show how participants use them according to the temporal dynamics. I finally highlight the way participants are gradually getting involved in the relationship with a large array of resources as the intensity of symptoms is reducing. My analysis is based on a three months ethnography in a therapeutic institution in Lausanne.

scholarly journals Musically Creolizing Subjects: Re(envisioning) world music education

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 155-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliet Hess
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
World Music ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Shifts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This paper explores possibilities for constructing creole subjects through world music education. Creolization results from the “fusing and mixing of cultures forced to cohabit together to render something else possible” (Walcott, 2009, p. 170 citing Hall, 2003, p. 193). As cultures fuse musically, our identity shifts. We become creole subjects through the encounters we experience, particularly, Walcott (2009) posits, in highly diverse urban spaces. The mobile nature of cultures is intrinsic to world music. My participation in an Ewe ensemble in Toronto demonstrates that cultures travel musically. The question then becomes: when cultures travel, who or what is refigured or remade and what becomes possible after the encounter? I posit that these encounters affect all parties; people become creole subjects—subjects constantly affected by their continuously changing cultural environments. In this paper, I think about this idea from a utopian perspective. I find thinking in this manner particularly useful in thinking about the future. In many ways, I feel we are mired down in academia with discussions of race and the “crisis of raciology” (Gilroy, 2000, Chapter 1) and that it might be quite productive to think beyond. I begin by arguing that there is the potential for world music education to be a colonizing project. I look specifically to Said (1993) and Thobani (2007) to inform my thinking on this topic. From there, I explore what might happen when an encounter facilitated through world music education occurs and the impact that this encounter could have on the way we define the category of the human. Finally, I think about what might occur after this encounter and redefinition take place.

scholarly journals Faded Red Paradise: Welfare and the Soviet City after 1953

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-615
Author(s):  
MARK B. SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Company Town ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe provision of social welfare and the shape of the Soviet city profoundly influenced each other, especially in the post-Stalin period. This article explores the relationship between welfare and city in the USSR after 1953 by focusing on four particular urban or exurban spaces: the company town, the microdistrict, the pensions office and the city's rural hinterland. After the ideological visions of the Khrushchev era faded, welfare moved even closer to the heart of Soviet urban life. It determined some of the contours of urban form, while the resulting urban spaces contributed fundamentally to the way that people understood Soviet power and the nature of their citizenship.

scholarly journals Entre a rua e o bairro: etnografia de um espaço em movimento

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natália Helou Fazzioni
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Way

Este artigo considera a dinâmica do bairro da Lapa, no Rio de Janeiro, e propõe um recorte metodológico possível para compreensão de espaços urbanos em processo de transformação, como este. Tais situações constituem-se de difícil apreensão por serem caracterizadas por um movimento de mudança, através do qual um conjunto de narrativas e práticas emanam e se afetam constantemente. A forma pela qual se apreendeu este movimento, neste caso, incluiu a análise de discursos públicos sobre o bairro, em paralelo a uma etnografia que privilegiou a observação da dinâmica de uma única rua. Ambas as perspectivas serão analisadas a partir de seus cruzamentos e pertinências para compreensão do processo de construção dos espaços e temporalidades da Lapa hoje.Palavras-chave: Espaço Urbano. Intervenções Urbanísticas. Etnografia.Between the street and the neighborhood: ethnography of a moving spaceAbstractThis paper considers the dynamics of Lapa district in Rio de Janeiro, and proposes a possible methodological approach to understand urban spaces in transformation process such as this. Such situations are themselves difficult to grasp because they are characterized by a movement of change through which a set of narratives and practices emanates and affects itself constantly. The way in which this movement seized in this case included the analysis of public discourse about the neighborhood, in parallel to an ethnography that focused on the observation of the dynamics of a single street. Both perspectives will be analyzed from their crosses and pertinence for understanding the process of construction of spaces and temporalities in Lapa today.Key Words: Urban Space. Urbanistic interventions. Ethnography. 

Lessening the Obduracy of Networked Urbanity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Dotson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Building Codes ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Third Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Subsidy ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Publicly Supported ◽  
The Way

This chapter outlines the constellation of economic, political, and cultural barriers to more communitarian urban spaces. The momentum of suburbia is shown to have as much to do with entrenched zoning rules and building codes, the mispricing of development charges and utility fees, and the lack of appropriate expertise among architects and planners as the sheer mass of already existing built form. Moving to more communitarian urban spaces will require ending the public subsidy of sprawl, changing the way mortgages are approved, ending the automatic provision of free parking, better supporting a range of more democratic urban development practices, among other changes. Finally, neighbourhood amenities, including third places, could be publicly supported and collectively governed.

“There is nothing human in nature”

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-501
Author(s):  
Pascale M. Manning
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Ecological Thought ◽  
Boundary Lines ◽  
The Way

Pascale M. Manning, “‘There is nothing human in nature’: Denying the Anthropocene in Richard Jefferies” (pp. 473–501) This essay contends that the work of the nineteenth-century British writer and naturalist Richard Jefferies embodies both a recognition and a radical denial of the Anthropocene, expressing a nascent form of the ambivalence that stalks our contemporary recognitions and misrecognitions of the human in/and nature. Drawing upon a range of Jefferies’s writings—both his essays and his autobiography in addition to his fiction—it argues that there exists in Jefferies’s work a recurring vein of anti-ecological thought, particularly evidenced in the way it frequently depicts strict boundary lines, whether between agricultural and urban spaces, between civilization and wild nature, or between the human and the natural world. Taking issue with recent ecocritical accounts of Jefferies’s post-apocalyptic novel After London (1885), this essay rereads Jefferies’s novel in light of the wider range of his writings to argue that it is most usefully read not as a proto-ecological rebuke to the unsustainability of human agro-industrial practices, nor as a prophetic evocation of a world re-greened by the collapse of those practices, but rather as the irresolute culmination of a career spent both testifying to the essential inviolability of nature and bearing witness to the mounting evidence of anthropogenic rupture.

Serious Gothic and ‘doing the Ancient Buildings’: Batty Langley's Ancient Architecture and ‘Principal Geometric Elevations’

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 141-173
Author(s):  
Peter Lindfield
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Gothic Revival ◽  
Classical Architecture ◽  
Architectural Treatises ◽  
Pattern Books

Batty Langley (1696-1751) is one of the most familiar and generally infamous figures of Britain's eighteenth-century Gothic Revival (Fig. 1). Following his father, he trained as a gardener and was one of the early promoters of the irregular style that prefigured William Hogarth's ‘line of beauty’. Langley's interest, however, turned to architecture and he produced numerous architectural treatises and pattern books, the majority of which were concerned with Classical architecture. This was a sensible decision since, as Eileen Harris and Nicholas Savage observe, ‘Langley had much to gain by concentrating his publishing activities on architecture, for which there was a considerably larger, more diversified, and less discriminating market.’ His most well-known publication, however, is concerned with the Gothic: Ancient Architecture: Restored, and Improved by a Great Variety of Grand and Useful Designs, Entirely New in the Gothick Mode (1741-42).

scholarly journals O Fascínio do Cinema na Arte Pública: entre a Ficção e a Realidade

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Pedro Regatão
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Artistic Interventions ◽  
The Way

Public art is one of the most relevant artistic manifestations in urban spaces, by the way it interacts with the public and relates to the surrounding environment. Today it is possible to observe a set of artistic interventions that are inspired, directly or indirectly, in the cinema, giving special importance to its aesthetic and cultural dimension. This text intends to analyze and to reflect critically on a set of works of public art dedicated to the cinematographic art and its main protagonists. From the commemorative sculpture that deals with the history of the seventh art, to the sculptural installation that celebrates a character or an actor.

Memory, Heritage and the Demolition of the Potsdam Garnisonkirche, 1968*

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-310
Author(s):  
Marcus Colla
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Many ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
The Church ◽  
Socialist Unity ◽  
The Way

Abstract In 1968, the ruling Socialist Unity Party demolished Potsdam’s Garnisonkirche (Garrison Church). This article analyses the way in which the demolition of the Garnisonkirche opened up a spectrum of reflections on the meaning of the Prussian and Nazi pasts in the GDR and the ways it ought to be mediated through the urban landscape. Using petitions sent by everyday citizens to the local political authorities as well as debates within the SED itself, this article demonstrates how the public discussion about the demolition of the church navigated the many problems posed by Potsdam’s ‘burdened’ past in its urban spaces. While a number of individuals believed that this history could be transcended through the construction of a ‘new’ Potsdam, others believed that effectively handling the recent past required a direct confrontation with its architectural symbols.

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